1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.MY-SUBS.org 2 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,858 I did not support your application. 3 00:01:06,945 --> 00:01:10,189 I find this position unsuitable for a woman. 4 00:01:10,366 --> 00:01:12,322 This profession requires strength. 5 00:01:13,326 --> 00:01:16,194 Nevertheless, it was decided to give you a chance. 6 00:01:16,371 --> 00:01:19,035 I was asked to assign you a position. 7 00:01:19,624 --> 00:01:21,866 I have your letter of assignment here. 8 00:01:23,795 --> 00:01:27,005 Prove your suitability, and we'll see each other in three years, 9 00:01:27,174 --> 00:01:30,792 if we find something less challenging for you. 10 00:01:30,969 --> 00:01:32,677 I will do my best. 11 00:01:34,598 --> 00:01:38,342 I doubt you'll even make it through the first term. 12 00:01:40,062 --> 00:01:44,557 Given your past, we cannot tolerate any violations. 13 00:01:44,734 --> 00:01:46,771 Your conduct must be exemplary. 14 00:01:48,029 --> 00:01:51,648 I find the Republic very generous in this matter, Mademoiselle. 15 00:01:51,824 --> 00:01:53,816 Time to pay your debt. 16 00:02:33,034 --> 00:02:34,319 This way. 17 00:02:34,826 --> 00:02:36,034 Thank you. 18 00:02:37,412 --> 00:02:38,869 Go on, run. 19 00:03:00,645 --> 00:03:02,510 I finally received my assignment. 20 00:03:03,231 --> 00:03:05,143 Almost a month late. 21 00:03:06,608 --> 00:03:09,067 The journey went well, but it was a long way. 22 00:03:10,238 --> 00:03:13,572 It seemed as if winter was already lurking behind autumn. 23 00:03:13,866 --> 00:03:16,028 But I have been living in winter for so long. 24 00:03:17,329 --> 00:03:19,490 I crossed France. 25 00:03:19,664 --> 00:03:21,702 I had forgotten this country. 26 00:03:23,127 --> 00:03:25,709 Here the sky hangs low, and the earth is rich. 27 00:03:28,298 --> 00:03:31,415 I couldn't have stayed in Paris any longer anyway. 28 00:03:32,094 --> 00:03:34,131 Too many memories. 29 00:03:35,597 --> 00:03:37,758 Perhaps I am running away. 30 00:03:47,443 --> 00:03:50,561 I have made it my mission to spread our ideas. 31 00:03:51,154 --> 00:03:53,238 Ignorance causes so much suffering. 32 00:03:55,742 --> 00:03:57,530 I wish you were here. 33 00:03:58,162 --> 00:04:00,029 I will miss our laughter. 34 00:04:00,706 --> 00:04:03,073 Forever, Louise. 35 00:04:37,326 --> 00:04:38,613 Good day, ma'am. 36 00:04:39,621 --> 00:04:42,830 Could you please tell me where to find the mayor? 37 00:05:03,562 --> 00:05:06,145 You're getting on my nerves! - Rémi, come back. 38 00:05:06,315 --> 00:05:08,226 Because of the debts, you decide for me? 39 00:05:08,399 --> 00:05:11,859 I'm buying a round! Rémi, don't be offended. 40 00:05:15,157 --> 00:05:17,194 Will you pay me back? 41 00:05:20,996 --> 00:05:22,453 Excuse me. 42 00:05:23,415 --> 00:05:25,828 Do you know where I can find the mayor? 43 00:05:26,961 --> 00:05:29,045 Who's asking? 44 00:05:30,048 --> 00:05:32,004 Louise Violet, like the color. 45 00:05:33,468 --> 00:05:35,254 I'm the new teacher. 46 00:05:38,848 --> 00:05:41,215 The last teacher here was old Millard. 47 00:05:41,393 --> 00:05:43,759 A non-commissioned officer, lost an arm in Solferino. 48 00:05:43,937 --> 00:05:47,429 He died before I could walk. - Has no one taught since then? 49 00:05:48,441 --> 00:05:51,103 It wasn't like now, it wasn't compulsory. 50 00:05:51,777 --> 00:05:55,317 That's all well and good, but laws alone don't accomplish anything. 51 00:05:56,198 --> 00:05:59,317 On Sundays, the priest would come now and then after mass. 52 00:05:59,494 --> 00:06:01,110 Not even that anymore. 53 00:06:01,288 --> 00:06:03,029 In any case, Millard was a teacher. 54 00:06:03,206 --> 00:06:04,868 He died of a lung ailment. 55 00:06:05,041 --> 00:06:07,374 I hope you can handle the cold better. 56 00:06:07,544 --> 00:06:09,581 The winter here isn't like in Paris. 57 00:06:12,090 --> 00:06:14,332 So you can read and do sums? 58 00:06:15,510 --> 00:06:17,719 I graduated from the 'École normale'. 59 00:06:17,887 --> 00:06:20,721 Women in school. What's so 'normal' about that? 60 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:24,808 Wood is over there, if you need any. 61 00:06:25,604 --> 00:06:27,846 Tools are across the way in the workshop. 62 00:06:29,149 --> 00:06:31,233 I live right behind here. 63 00:06:31,944 --> 00:06:34,937 I sleep upstairs, my mother downstairs. 64 00:06:35,114 --> 00:06:37,982 She'll make you some soup. Make yourself at home. 65 00:06:38,159 --> 00:06:39,741 And my room? 66 00:06:39,910 --> 00:06:42,697 I had a new stable built behind the woods. 67 00:06:42,871 --> 00:06:45,956 Now you have space here. But Marguerite is staying. 68 00:06:46,417 --> 00:06:48,158 She feeds the family. 69 00:06:48,336 --> 00:06:50,077 She'll keep you warm. 70 00:06:50,838 --> 00:06:52,875 Your salary is 700 francs. 71 00:06:53,967 --> 00:06:57,084 To pay teachers poorly is to spoil the profession. 72 00:06:57,261 --> 00:07:00,800 One day you will reap what you sow, and the harvest will be meager. 73 00:07:03,309 --> 00:07:05,017 We didn't ask for anything. 74 00:07:08,607 --> 00:07:12,691 Whatever they told you in Paris, classes are only half-day. 75 00:07:12,861 --> 00:07:15,478 You are also the mayor's secretary, 76 00:07:15,656 --> 00:07:17,271 gravedigger and sexton. 77 00:07:17,448 --> 00:07:20,533 Gravedigger and sexton? - That's the law. 78 00:07:40,390 --> 00:07:41,470 Postscript: 79 00:07:42,724 --> 00:07:45,388 I will send you photographs as soon as possible. 80 00:07:46,603 --> 00:07:50,472 First, I must get to know the inhabitants. 81 00:07:52,651 --> 00:07:55,894 The mayor implied that school is foreign to them. 82 00:07:57,031 --> 00:08:00,148 But I am confident I can win them over. 83 00:08:33,901 --> 00:08:36,235 Good morning. - Good morning. 84 00:09:21,909 --> 00:09:23,320 Good day. 85 00:09:26,748 --> 00:09:28,205 Good day. 86 00:09:30,502 --> 00:09:32,709 I'm the new teacher. 87 00:09:34,463 --> 00:09:35,921 Move along. 88 00:09:36,882 --> 00:09:38,875 Good day, Father. - Good day. 89 00:09:42,472 --> 00:09:45,306 Good day. - Good day. I'm Louise... 90 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,263 Louise Violet. Like the color. 91 00:09:50,231 --> 00:09:52,847 The village is small. News travels fast. 92 00:09:53,525 --> 00:09:55,391 I am Father Francis. 93 00:09:56,319 --> 00:09:59,654 Since when do the Republic's missionaries wear skirts? 94 00:09:59,824 --> 00:10:02,816 Since when do sextons wear a hermit's beard? 95 00:10:03,117 --> 00:10:05,609 Some posts are not promotions. 96 00:10:06,287 --> 00:10:08,905 But one can make oneself useful anywhere. 97 00:10:09,082 --> 00:10:10,664 You will see. 98 00:10:11,168 --> 00:10:14,502 The confessional is open every morning. - I rarely go to church. 99 00:10:14,797 --> 00:10:16,504 Unusual for a gravedigger. 100 00:10:16,674 --> 00:10:19,792 I do the cleaning myself, in the church and the rectory. 101 00:10:19,969 --> 00:10:22,255 I can manage on my own during mass. 102 00:10:22,429 --> 00:10:25,922 But for baptisms and communions, you'll have to make an effort. 103 00:10:42,576 --> 00:10:44,237 Give me the soap, Francine. 104 00:10:44,535 --> 00:10:45,992 Please. 105 00:11:01,927 --> 00:11:06,013 Look at her. You must earn a fortune to dress up like that. 106 00:11:16,693 --> 00:11:18,151 Here. 107 00:11:28,830 --> 00:11:30,162 Good day. - Good day. 108 00:11:30,332 --> 00:11:33,292 I'm Thermidor. At least, that's what they call me. 109 00:11:34,045 --> 00:11:35,751 You weren't here yesterday. 110 00:11:36,213 --> 00:11:39,205 Tell me, is it always going to be like this? 111 00:11:40,133 --> 00:11:42,717 Because two letters in two days... 112 00:11:43,678 --> 00:11:45,591 That's more than a prefect. 113 00:11:50,770 --> 00:11:54,354 Don't you have anyone to help you? - I manage just fine on my own. 114 00:11:57,944 --> 00:12:01,733 Here. - Oh, la, la, you must have ink in your veins. 115 00:12:01,906 --> 00:12:05,321 Because of people like you, we'll end up with a velocipede. 116 00:12:05,493 --> 00:12:08,782 You know, a velocipede. We'll make fools of ourselves. 117 00:12:08,955 --> 00:12:11,072 Here, for the stamp. - Thank you. 118 00:12:14,294 --> 00:12:16,330 So? Did you get the eggs? 119 00:12:21,969 --> 00:12:23,675 Come on, let's hurry. 120 00:12:27,516 --> 00:12:30,974 Could you spread the word on your route that the school is opening? 121 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:32,977 Of course. 122 00:12:37,109 --> 00:12:39,101 You'll see, we have it good here. 123 00:12:43,824 --> 00:12:46,612 In the old days, heads had to roll to keep the people happy. 124 00:12:46,785 --> 00:12:49,494 Now we get speeches 125 00:12:49,788 --> 00:12:51,199 and garlands. 126 00:12:51,623 --> 00:12:54,411 I'm telling you, the world is changing. 127 00:12:55,752 --> 00:12:58,119 Maybe you'll be invited, Joseph. 128 00:12:58,296 --> 00:13:01,040 1,500 mayors are being summoned to Paris. 129 00:13:01,884 --> 00:13:03,341 Thanks, Marthe. 130 00:13:05,013 --> 00:13:06,924 'To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Revolution 131 00:13:07,097 --> 00:13:11,513 around the beacon of progress by Monsieur Eiffel.' 132 00:13:11,686 --> 00:13:15,475 In the presence of Thomas Edison and Buffalo Bill.' 133 00:13:15,647 --> 00:13:19,437 There will be electricity everywhere. It'll be bright as day in the middle of the night. 134 00:13:19,610 --> 00:13:23,193 Alright. Is this a town council meeting or a newspaper reading? 135 00:13:23,364 --> 00:13:26,607 Chatterboxes like them get fatter and fatter while we break our backs for them. 136 00:13:27,243 --> 00:13:29,986 What good is all this modernity to us? Nothing. 137 00:13:31,706 --> 00:13:35,620 The phylloxera still got the vines and the ink disease got the chestnut trees. 138 00:13:35,793 --> 00:13:38,411 If you don't like our land here, Rémi, 139 00:13:38,589 --> 00:13:40,250 you should have stayed home. 140 00:13:40,841 --> 00:13:45,676 I was born ten kilometers from here. - My point exactly. A whole other country. 141 00:13:49,515 --> 00:13:51,803 We should slaughter the pig and share it. 142 00:13:51,977 --> 00:13:55,469 Still better than getting at each other's throats. Good night. 143 00:13:57,858 --> 00:14:01,316 Is it true the teacher starts her classes tomorrow? 144 00:14:01,487 --> 00:14:03,193 The problem is the town hall. 145 00:14:03,489 --> 00:14:06,653 The state gives too little for construction. That means a tax increase. 146 00:14:06,825 --> 00:14:10,068 I can't pay more until spring, after the fruit harvest. 147 00:14:10,245 --> 00:14:14,205 Then start as a road worker. Bring your son, he's a hard worker. 148 00:14:14,374 --> 00:14:17,413 In any case, he'll learn more there than at school. 149 00:14:25,219 --> 00:14:29,463 SCHOOL 150 00:14:58,128 --> 00:15:01,292 What are you doing here? Are you going to school? 151 00:15:01,464 --> 00:15:03,330 I want to work with wood. 152 00:15:04,551 --> 00:15:08,090 Does your father know? - He thinks I'm setting bird traps in the woods. 153 00:15:08,972 --> 00:15:11,306 And you prefer the plane to the thrush? 154 00:15:20,484 --> 00:15:22,816 That's a good piece of wood, don't ruin it. 155 00:15:31,536 --> 00:15:34,701 School is mandatory. It's the law. You must enforce it. 156 00:15:34,874 --> 00:15:38,163 Either you send the children to me, or I'll call the police. 157 00:15:38,794 --> 00:15:40,660 Right now, you're a stranger here. 158 00:15:41,630 --> 00:15:43,587 If you do that, you'll be the enemy. 159 00:16:49,157 --> 00:16:52,777 I had hoped I would be expected. I was wrong. 160 00:16:52,953 --> 00:16:54,741 I am not welcome. 161 00:16:56,499 --> 00:16:59,367 The weeks go by, and the children don't come. 162 00:16:59,543 --> 00:17:01,125 Have I failed already? 163 00:17:04,382 --> 00:17:06,669 This world is not my own. I am exploring it. 164 00:17:07,803 --> 00:17:09,714 It has its own rules. 165 00:17:11,514 --> 00:17:14,427 Our ideas haven't reached the countryside. 166 00:17:15,477 --> 00:17:17,684 The desire for education doesn't exist. 167 00:17:17,853 --> 00:17:19,389 The law against child labor 168 00:17:19,689 --> 00:17:22,181 may have helped the sons of factory workers. 169 00:17:22,358 --> 00:17:24,476 But here, nothing has changed. 170 00:17:24,652 --> 00:17:27,316 The happiness of farmhands is a lie. 171 00:17:28,155 --> 00:17:29,862 For the children, it means slavery. 172 00:17:32,494 --> 00:17:36,032 Our desire for progress and social justice is not enough. 173 00:17:37,124 --> 00:17:39,787 There is still a need to persuade people. 174 00:17:41,211 --> 00:17:43,624 However, I can't even make myself heard. 175 00:17:46,383 --> 00:17:49,342 The children are doomed to repeat the gestures of their parents. 176 00:17:49,511 --> 00:17:52,003 They work from dawn to dusk. 177 00:17:52,306 --> 00:17:54,263 For the girls, it's even worse. 178 00:17:55,642 --> 00:17:57,884 How are they to become citizens of the Republic, 179 00:17:58,061 --> 00:18:01,521 without learning a thing about their country and its history? 180 00:18:02,441 --> 00:18:06,481 How can they claim their right to vote without first the right to an education? 181 00:18:11,868 --> 00:18:16,032 How can we build a better society if no one wants to learn? 182 00:18:22,712 --> 00:18:24,202 Such a waste. 183 00:19:11,553 --> 00:19:13,089 You're here with me. 184 00:19:13,555 --> 00:19:15,012 So you'll eat. 185 00:19:19,228 --> 00:19:21,390 If you want to work, you have to eat. 186 00:19:26,235 --> 00:19:27,693 Thank you. 187 00:19:32,492 --> 00:19:34,448 Your benches won't lure them in. 188 00:19:34,618 --> 00:19:36,780 You have to flush the children out of their homes. 189 00:19:36,954 --> 00:19:39,413 And win the parents' trust. 190 00:19:39,582 --> 00:19:41,948 Do you think I haven't tried? 191 00:19:42,460 --> 00:19:44,576 No one will even look at me. 192 00:19:44,754 --> 00:19:47,291 You're giving up without a fight? 193 00:20:15,577 --> 00:20:17,160 Do your feet hurt? 194 00:20:17,328 --> 00:20:20,663 So what if they do? They're mine. What's it to you? 195 00:20:26,671 --> 00:20:29,710 If you need new clogs, all you have to do is ask. 196 00:20:29,884 --> 00:20:33,298 I never ask for anything, especially not at my age. 197 00:20:36,932 --> 00:20:39,219 But if I were to ask a question, 198 00:20:39,477 --> 00:20:42,311 I'd wonder what a girl like you is doing here. 199 00:20:44,356 --> 00:20:46,312 The good Lord is very kind. 200 00:20:52,907 --> 00:20:55,866 Her kind doesn't often pass through here. 201 00:20:57,578 --> 00:21:01,572 If you don't take your place, someone else will. 202 00:21:03,167 --> 00:21:04,874 Mind your own knitting. 203 00:21:06,254 --> 00:21:09,417 If you want her to stay, you have to keep her happy. 204 00:21:09,590 --> 00:21:12,208 The children must attend their classes. 205 00:21:35,992 --> 00:21:38,450 I don't know if that's a good idea. 206 00:21:40,331 --> 00:21:42,287 I'm a bit wobbly on these skis. 207 00:21:42,458 --> 00:21:45,666 You always have to push off, except when going downhill. 208 00:21:46,962 --> 00:21:48,498 Mother is right. 209 00:21:48,672 --> 00:21:50,834 You have to speak to people in person. 210 00:21:51,008 --> 00:21:53,625 I'll introduce you. An official tour. 211 00:21:54,679 --> 00:21:56,260 Will your tour be long? 212 00:21:57,013 --> 00:21:58,926 Farmers don't live in the village. 213 00:21:59,350 --> 00:22:01,682 Besides, this is a mountainous area. 214 00:22:02,144 --> 00:22:04,477 With breaks, you should expect it to take a day. 215 00:22:08,984 --> 00:22:12,149 If you keep stopping, we won't be back until after dark. 216 00:22:33,427 --> 00:22:35,668 Do you make this trip often? 217 00:22:36,346 --> 00:22:38,679 I've always enjoyed being in the fresh air. 218 00:22:39,349 --> 00:22:42,342 As a child, I even wanted to be a journeyman carpenter. 219 00:22:43,436 --> 00:22:45,599 Eating fish soup in Marseille. 220 00:22:46,230 --> 00:22:48,689 Ham omelets in Lorraine. 221 00:22:49,358 --> 00:22:51,316 Galettes in Brittany. 222 00:22:53,238 --> 00:22:57,323 The plan didn't work out, so I'm still here. 223 00:22:59,494 --> 00:23:02,987 If that was your dream, why didn't you become a journeyman? 224 00:23:04,458 --> 00:23:06,916 Are we sharing our secrets now? 225 00:23:08,254 --> 00:23:12,624 I hope you know what you're doing. Because this is what the children will give up: 226 00:23:13,551 --> 00:23:17,670 ice skating, snowballs, chasing frogs, 227 00:23:17,972 --> 00:23:21,214 roaming through the meadows, freedom. 228 00:23:22,184 --> 00:23:24,643 So far, I've mostly seen them working. 229 00:23:24,811 --> 00:23:26,677 Freedom is living as you please. 230 00:23:29,567 --> 00:23:32,150 The first farm is behind the trees. Roger Feuillant's place. 231 00:23:32,445 --> 00:23:35,358 He's a fool, but he has two children for your class. 232 00:23:36,282 --> 00:23:38,274 You have to convince them. 233 00:23:38,451 --> 00:23:42,035 But you're in their home. Whatever they offer you, you accept. 234 00:23:42,205 --> 00:23:45,164 If they drink, you drink with them. Never refuse. 235 00:23:51,339 --> 00:23:54,002 We're not all the same. - In the eyes of the law, we are. 236 00:23:54,175 --> 00:23:56,292 Beyond that, there's inequality everywhere. 237 00:23:56,470 --> 00:23:58,552 All the more reason to try to overcome it. 238 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,888 We have no money for your fees. 239 00:24:02,558 --> 00:24:04,300 We can't afford it. 240 00:24:04,727 --> 00:24:07,266 Things have changed. School is free. 241 00:24:07,898 --> 00:24:10,561 Free, secular, and compulsory. 242 00:24:11,068 --> 00:24:12,559 That's the Republic for you. 243 00:24:12,861 --> 00:24:15,978 That's all well and good, but who's in charge here? 244 00:24:16,155 --> 00:24:18,193 You or me? - You, of course. 245 00:24:18,367 --> 00:24:20,404 Then why should he become better than his father? 246 00:24:20,576 --> 00:24:23,069 What happens if he knows more than I do? 247 00:24:23,247 --> 00:24:25,079 He'll kick me out. 248 00:24:25,248 --> 00:24:28,458 He won't know more than you, just different things. 249 00:24:29,586 --> 00:24:32,704 You will have made him rich: rich in knowledge. 250 00:24:32,881 --> 00:24:36,966 I can barely feed my family. And I'm supposed to do without my sons? 251 00:24:38,096 --> 00:24:41,088 The schedule is based on the farm work. 252 00:24:42,642 --> 00:24:45,054 The fields have to be worked every day. 253 00:24:46,228 --> 00:24:48,767 Besides, a teacher costs the community money. 254 00:24:49,315 --> 00:24:52,523 A teacher costs the state no more than a convict. 255 00:24:52,694 --> 00:24:54,525 That just shows how pointless it is. 256 00:25:01,076 --> 00:25:03,785 I can't read or write. I get by just fine. 257 00:25:04,956 --> 00:25:07,369 School prepares you for change and progress. 258 00:25:08,501 --> 00:25:11,665 Are you sure your progress is actually progress? 259 00:25:12,338 --> 00:25:14,876 You always think tomorrow will be better. 260 00:25:15,550 --> 00:25:19,670 But can you tell couch grass from ryegrass? I doubt it. 261 00:25:19,846 --> 00:25:23,135 No, I can't. But I'd like to learn. 262 00:25:24,309 --> 00:25:28,349 The worst thing about people like you is your superior silence. 263 00:25:29,690 --> 00:25:33,103 While you're teaching, my wife and daughter sew at night 264 00:25:33,276 --> 00:25:34,859 for the shops in Paris. 265 00:25:36,404 --> 00:25:39,818 I work my plot of land on Sundays, because I work elsewhere the rest of the week, 266 00:25:39,992 --> 00:25:41,779 to feed my family. 267 00:25:44,580 --> 00:25:47,242 With a life like that, there's no time to learn to read. 268 00:25:53,172 --> 00:25:54,834 I'm not against it. 269 00:25:56,133 --> 00:25:58,090 But I'll make you a deal. 270 00:25:59,428 --> 00:26:01,920 You can have the two of them if you help us with the other one. 271 00:26:03,808 --> 00:26:05,049 Yes. 272 00:26:05,226 --> 00:26:09,437 The doctor can't come because of the snow. My wife's water broke. 273 00:26:10,731 --> 00:26:12,597 It's a good thing you came. 274 00:26:23,787 --> 00:26:27,370 With all the letters I bring her, she has no time to be bored. 275 00:26:27,665 --> 00:26:30,659 She even writes more than she receives. 276 00:26:31,628 --> 00:26:34,415 Anyone who writes that much has character. She's not lazy. 277 00:26:34,589 --> 00:26:37,332 And you, what are you? - I'm a civil servant. 278 00:26:38,093 --> 00:26:39,800 Like the schoolmistress. 279 00:26:41,596 --> 00:26:45,260 What about you? What do you think of the schoolmistress? 280 00:26:47,687 --> 00:26:50,679 She uses too much ink, but I like her well enough. 281 00:26:52,023 --> 00:26:54,015 Besides, she's a modern woman. 282 00:26:54,192 --> 00:26:55,934 She even takes photographs. 283 00:26:56,695 --> 00:27:00,110 Maybe she'll take a portrait of me sometime. 284 00:27:01,950 --> 00:27:03,408 Do you hear that? 285 00:27:05,454 --> 00:27:06,911 Do you hear that? 286 00:27:20,428 --> 00:27:21,963 It's a girl! 287 00:27:34,066 --> 00:27:36,649 Shh, it's okay. 288 00:27:37,194 --> 00:27:39,232 We'll name her after you. 289 00:27:48,206 --> 00:27:51,289 Anyone who holds a baby like that loves children. 290 00:27:51,792 --> 00:27:53,250 Do you have any? 291 00:27:54,796 --> 00:27:56,879 Are we sharing our secrets now? 292 00:27:59,676 --> 00:28:03,169 She'll go to school, but you still have to give her back. 293 00:28:11,605 --> 00:28:13,062 Come on! 294 00:29:41,572 --> 00:29:43,529 Good morning. - Good morning. 295 00:30:20,779 --> 00:30:23,021 Good day, Madame. - Good day. 296 00:30:32,540 --> 00:30:35,283 We've made some soup for you. - Thank you. 297 00:30:37,754 --> 00:30:40,998 So you can make our children happier than we can? 298 00:30:44,512 --> 00:30:48,630 The girl is a quick learner. Her father's pride and joy. 299 00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:51,717 So... 300 00:30:52,602 --> 00:30:55,141 maybe she can become a teacher too. 301 00:30:57,733 --> 00:30:59,690 Do you want to go to school? 302 00:31:01,278 --> 00:31:04,146 Yes, ma'am. I would like to learn something. 303 00:31:16,836 --> 00:31:20,296 If you want to learn something, school is the right place. 304 00:31:21,882 --> 00:31:23,340 And me? 305 00:31:25,345 --> 00:31:27,427 Can you teach me to read and write? 306 00:31:27,721 --> 00:31:29,213 Or is it too late? 307 00:31:29,808 --> 00:31:31,265 It's never too late. 308 00:31:40,652 --> 00:31:42,109 Are you ready? 309 00:31:43,571 --> 00:31:46,030 This is the first letter of the alphabet. 310 00:31:47,868 --> 00:31:50,781 You draw a circle and a little tail on it. 311 00:31:50,954 --> 00:31:54,573 Can you name three words that start with the letter 'a'? 312 00:31:56,710 --> 00:31:58,168 Artichoke. 313 00:31:59,045 --> 00:32:01,833 Apple and dinner? 314 00:32:06,928 --> 00:32:09,420 He's asking if this is the school. 315 00:32:13,894 --> 00:32:16,262 Something happened. 316 00:32:16,439 --> 00:32:18,681 If I were a believer, I would speak of miracles. 317 00:32:20,817 --> 00:32:22,025 Good day. 318 00:32:22,194 --> 00:32:25,484 Since the birth of little Louise, people look at me differently. 319 00:32:26,741 --> 00:32:30,701 My skills as a midwife have made me credible as a teacher. 320 00:32:31,787 --> 00:32:33,119 The world surrounds me. 321 00:32:33,414 --> 00:32:35,576 And I feel like looking at it again. 322 00:32:36,626 --> 00:32:40,041 To capture it. To spread it out for all to see. 323 00:33:01,692 --> 00:33:03,776 I feel like bearing witness again. 324 00:33:07,157 --> 00:33:09,524 Beauty is everywhere, if you have an eye for it. 325 00:33:09,701 --> 00:33:11,566 Especially in the eyes of children. 326 00:33:14,873 --> 00:33:18,116 One face after another appeared in my class. 327 00:33:21,004 --> 00:33:24,543 I'll give you a letter. You write it on your slates. 328 00:33:24,716 --> 00:33:27,084 Then you will tell me words with this letter. 329 00:33:27,719 --> 00:33:28,880 Blouse. 330 00:33:29,179 --> 00:33:30,136 Mama. 331 00:33:30,431 --> 00:33:31,796 Pair. 332 00:33:32,099 --> 00:33:33,557 Tuna. 333 00:33:34,476 --> 00:33:36,593 Cake. - Grass snake. 334 00:33:39,564 --> 00:33:42,103 June. July. 335 00:33:42,943 --> 00:33:45,686 The mayor is my ally. - Joseph. 336 00:33:45,862 --> 00:33:48,150 He is also my most eager student. 337 00:33:48,865 --> 00:33:51,153 Our ideas are revealed through him. 338 00:33:52,704 --> 00:33:54,410 There is talent everywhere. 339 00:33:56,874 --> 00:33:58,785 The winter was hard. 340 00:33:59,085 --> 00:34:01,577 But the harbingers of spring are already here. 341 00:34:01,754 --> 00:34:04,121 The children enjoy coming to class. 342 00:34:04,632 --> 00:34:06,840 And the progress is spectacular. 343 00:34:08,594 --> 00:34:11,008 You're late, Roger. - Sorry. 344 00:34:11,597 --> 00:34:13,635 One does not come late to school. 345 00:34:13,809 --> 00:34:16,016 Firmin, seven times seven? 346 00:34:16,686 --> 00:34:18,769 Seven times seven: 49. 347 00:34:19,063 --> 00:34:20,395 Flore, five times five. 348 00:34:21,065 --> 00:34:23,399 Five times five: 25. - Very good. 349 00:34:23,693 --> 00:34:25,651 Jeanne, six times six. - Six times six: 36. 350 00:34:25,946 --> 00:34:26,982 Three times two: six. 351 00:34:27,656 --> 00:34:29,738 Three times three: nine. - Four times four: 16. 352 00:34:30,033 --> 00:34:32,526 I think you would be impressed. 353 00:34:33,203 --> 00:34:36,161 Everyone wants to learn. They were waiting for a helping hand. 354 00:34:36,332 --> 00:34:37,162 Quickly! 355 00:34:37,332 --> 00:34:38,540 If only you could see this. 356 00:34:38,708 --> 00:34:40,075 We're going to be late! 357 00:34:40,377 --> 00:34:42,664 School is becoming a habit. 358 00:34:42,838 --> 00:34:44,625 But there's still a long way to go. 359 00:34:46,091 --> 00:34:49,334 I have set myself the goal of leaving no one behind. 360 00:34:52,139 --> 00:34:55,598 In the meantime, the promised material has arrived. 361 00:34:57,269 --> 00:35:00,762 It took months. I was about to give up hope. 362 00:35:02,066 --> 00:35:05,026 Finally, I can realize my ambitions. 363 00:35:05,819 --> 00:35:08,436 France is a hexagon, it has six sides. 364 00:35:08,739 --> 00:35:10,402 One, two, three, 365 00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:12,611 four, five and six. 366 00:35:12,785 --> 00:35:17,247 Three of them border the sea. The English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean. 367 00:35:17,415 --> 00:35:19,202 And... Flore? 368 00:35:19,833 --> 00:35:21,871 The Mediterranean Sea. 369 00:35:23,296 --> 00:35:26,334 Our most important mountain ranges are... Lucette? 370 00:35:27,092 --> 00:35:29,209 The Alps and the Py... 371 00:35:29,969 --> 00:35:31,835 Pyrenees. - Pyrenees. 372 00:35:32,013 --> 00:35:33,879 Bravo, Lucette. And Victor. 373 00:35:34,766 --> 00:35:37,679 We must know its geography, because France is our country. 374 00:35:37,853 --> 00:35:39,138 Our nation. 375 00:35:40,105 --> 00:35:43,599 Now you will take turns naming a French 'département'. 376 00:35:44,359 --> 00:35:47,318 For now, you can read them, but you must learn them by heart. 377 00:35:48,572 --> 00:35:50,654 Roland? Will you start? 378 00:35:51,492 --> 00:35:52,949 'Côte-d'Or'. 379 00:35:53,953 --> 00:35:54,943 'Var'. 380 00:35:55,121 --> 00:35:56,656 I don't forget. 381 00:35:57,123 --> 00:35:58,784 I never forget. 382 00:35:59,417 --> 00:36:01,908 But I have the feeling of being useful. 383 00:36:02,086 --> 00:36:05,670 It allows me to carry on, to accept that I am alive. 384 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,049 Despite everything. Despite the memories and the pain. 385 00:36:09,218 --> 00:36:10,378 'Landes'. 386 00:36:10,552 --> 00:36:12,795 Despite the life that was stolen from me. 387 00:36:14,723 --> 00:36:16,180 I am alive. 388 00:36:16,892 --> 00:36:18,850 Unwillingly, but so it is. 389 00:36:19,603 --> 00:36:21,060 Alive. 390 00:36:21,230 --> 00:36:23,313 For whatever that's worth. 391 00:36:24,526 --> 00:36:26,187 'Seine-et-Marne'. 392 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:27,817 'Cantal'. 393 00:36:28,697 --> 00:36:31,564 Who can tell me the highest mountain in France? 394 00:36:33,659 --> 00:36:35,367 No, that's not right. 395 00:36:45,129 --> 00:36:47,087 Stop that right now! Come help with the hay! 396 00:36:48,299 --> 00:36:49,882 We need all hands on deck! 397 00:36:50,886 --> 00:36:52,878 Don't make me come and get you! 398 00:36:57,517 --> 00:37:00,134 Come on, get a move on. As if I have nothing better to do. 399 00:37:00,312 --> 00:37:04,101 Rémi's not a bad guy, but he's been marked. 400 00:37:04,274 --> 00:37:05,856 Everything is going wrong. 401 00:37:06,026 --> 00:37:09,360 I read the notary's letter. He had to sell a piece of land. 402 00:37:09,654 --> 00:37:12,398 And that really hits you. 403 00:37:15,495 --> 00:37:16,575 Get on with it. 404 00:37:17,663 --> 00:37:20,450 Honorine says the good Lord has cursed him. 405 00:37:21,708 --> 00:37:24,701 Let God be a good man and put your back into it. 406 00:37:25,296 --> 00:37:28,414 At this rate, we'll still be here at Christmas. 407 00:37:28,716 --> 00:37:31,709 Just wait until it rains. We'll see if you're still laughing then. 408 00:37:31,886 --> 00:37:33,593 Why would it rain? 409 00:37:34,138 --> 00:37:35,629 What do you know about it? 410 00:37:38,351 --> 00:37:41,935 When he's like that, say nothing. Or you'll get a slap. 411 00:37:43,648 --> 00:37:45,230 Come on, get to work. 412 00:37:45,525 --> 00:37:47,733 The hay won't stack itself. 413 00:37:48,402 --> 00:37:51,395 Education or not, farm children have to make hay. 414 00:37:51,572 --> 00:37:53,529 Otherwise, they're not farm children. 415 00:37:53,699 --> 00:37:56,157 Apparently, she writes letters almost every day. 416 00:37:56,327 --> 00:37:58,535 Alone in her barn, with only her mail for warmth. 417 00:37:58,704 --> 00:38:00,662 That's no way to live. 418 00:38:02,709 --> 00:38:04,370 Joseph is surely trying to win her over. 419 00:38:05,002 --> 00:38:07,791 If we're done by tonight, everyone gets a bottle. 420 00:38:08,090 --> 00:38:09,546 Like a rooster in a henhouse. 421 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,923 As the teacher's husband, he'd have an extra income. 422 00:38:16,097 --> 00:38:18,806 And just like that, Marthe will make her a daughter-in-law. 423 00:38:18,976 --> 00:38:22,265 Apparently, the mayor is back in school. 424 00:38:22,437 --> 00:38:24,850 What's next? Can-can lessons? 425 00:38:25,566 --> 00:38:27,148 My mother was right. 426 00:38:27,317 --> 00:38:29,900 Only the rich can afford such foolishness. 427 00:38:31,613 --> 00:38:32,820 Come on! 428 00:38:33,574 --> 00:38:35,281 A bottle for everyone! 429 00:38:37,578 --> 00:38:40,195 One, two, three. 430 00:38:40,372 --> 00:38:44,458 Arms out like Jesus Christ. One, two, three. 431 00:38:44,626 --> 00:38:46,242 And frog legs. 432 00:38:46,420 --> 00:38:49,289 One, two, three. 433 00:38:50,048 --> 00:38:53,713 One, two, three. The shore's not far now. 434 00:38:53,886 --> 00:38:56,218 That way you won't drown. - Keep going. 435 00:38:57,807 --> 00:38:59,264 Thank you for bringing him. 436 00:39:02,269 --> 00:39:06,480 I'll take you with me if you want. We'll catch frogs. It's really fun. 437 00:39:06,649 --> 00:39:08,264 Flore. Come on, hurry up. 438 00:39:08,443 --> 00:39:11,026 Take the bench, or you'll never catch up. 439 00:39:15,074 --> 00:39:17,191 Want to join in? 440 00:39:21,414 --> 00:39:23,747 Did you find a spot, Flore? - Yes. 441 00:39:23,916 --> 00:39:26,534 And we continue. One, two... 442 00:39:27,630 --> 00:39:29,713 ...three. One... 443 00:39:29,882 --> 00:39:32,089 Fancy some school? - Two, three. 444 00:39:32,259 --> 00:39:36,218 Come on, you'll reach America soon. One, two, three. 445 00:39:36,388 --> 00:39:39,301 Chin up, or you'll be looking at the fish. One, two... 446 00:39:39,475 --> 00:39:43,468 Flat caps are for factory workers. A journeyman wears a hat. 447 00:39:48,651 --> 00:39:50,768 We just don't matter to them. 448 00:39:50,944 --> 00:39:56,565 Without her, we'd have nothing. No books, no blackboard. Nothing. 449 00:39:57,618 --> 00:40:01,282 She had to pay for the chalk out of her own pocket. - Out of her own pocket? 450 00:40:01,914 --> 00:40:03,280 Come on, Rémi! 451 00:40:03,458 --> 00:40:04,573 Hold on. Careful. 452 00:40:04,750 --> 00:40:08,369 Have a drink. - No time for chit-chat, I have to work. 453 00:40:08,545 --> 00:40:12,210 We're not here to discuss, we're here to make decisions. 454 00:40:14,010 --> 00:40:18,505 You have to admit, the teacher makes Joseph a bit more generous. 455 00:40:18,807 --> 00:40:19,923 Here. 456 00:40:22,393 --> 00:40:25,353 She's demanding that a school be built. 457 00:40:25,647 --> 00:40:28,684 But the gentlemen at the Ministry won't hear a word of it. 458 00:40:28,858 --> 00:40:32,192 And how do you know that? - I read her mail. 459 00:40:33,071 --> 00:40:36,781 And she has style. Yes, better than the newspaper. 460 00:40:38,201 --> 00:40:40,409 Shouldn't the little one be in school? 461 00:40:40,578 --> 00:40:43,036 We'll send her every other day for now. - Yes. 462 00:40:43,206 --> 00:40:45,539 We don't want her getting lazy. 463 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,043 Someone's about to get in trouble. 464 00:40:55,343 --> 00:40:56,801 Where have you been? 465 00:40:57,430 --> 00:40:59,045 Setting snares. 466 00:41:06,230 --> 00:41:07,811 I know you were with him. 467 00:41:08,899 --> 00:41:10,685 And you lie about it, too. 468 00:41:11,609 --> 00:41:13,397 I ought to give you a thrashing. 469 00:41:15,823 --> 00:41:18,156 Make yourself useful and bring the tools. 470 00:41:27,293 --> 00:41:28,750 It's your turn. 471 00:41:38,137 --> 00:41:39,594 What is that? 472 00:41:40,014 --> 00:41:41,847 A lectern. - A lectern? 473 00:41:42,391 --> 00:41:46,385 A lectern commands authority. I'll swap it out after class. 474 00:41:51,233 --> 00:41:52,691 Thank you. 475 00:42:02,788 --> 00:42:05,246 Don't get your hands dirty. - We're playing ball. 476 00:42:05,415 --> 00:42:07,077 Use your feet. Give that to me. 477 00:42:08,543 --> 00:42:11,911 In school, you speak French. - With my feet? 478 00:42:12,506 --> 00:42:15,124 That must be hilarious. Come on. 479 00:42:16,427 --> 00:42:18,213 We're playing with our feet! 480 00:42:34,027 --> 00:42:35,564 Finish up. 481 00:42:41,118 --> 00:42:43,825 Are you all right? - It's nothing, just old age. 482 00:42:44,872 --> 00:42:46,328 Come on, Roland. 483 00:43:00,930 --> 00:43:03,092 He's always been good with wood. 484 00:43:07,812 --> 00:43:09,520 He even wanted to make a living from it. 485 00:43:09,690 --> 00:43:12,682 But after his brother's death, he had to take over the farm. 486 00:43:13,276 --> 00:43:15,984 The little one's mother was a seasonal worker. 487 00:43:16,488 --> 00:43:19,447 She ran off with a fellow from the north and left her with us. 488 00:43:20,534 --> 00:43:22,241 But Joseph 489 00:43:23,077 --> 00:43:24,944 doesn't regret it. 490 00:43:25,122 --> 00:43:27,956 Because this child... 491 00:43:28,749 --> 00:43:30,412 is his pride and joy. 492 00:43:37,801 --> 00:43:39,258 And you? 493 00:43:40,972 --> 00:43:42,963 What are you hiding from us? 494 00:43:44,099 --> 00:43:47,433 Don't act so surprised. I've seen too much to be blind. 495 00:43:48,396 --> 00:43:50,136 You're a city person. 496 00:43:50,898 --> 00:43:52,480 You're too good for us. 497 00:43:53,025 --> 00:43:55,313 The fact that you're here, 498 00:43:56,195 --> 00:43:58,356 means that something must have happened. 499 00:44:01,284 --> 00:44:03,195 Besides, it shows on your face. 500 00:44:04,077 --> 00:44:06,070 You haven't only had good luck. 501 00:44:13,212 --> 00:44:16,876 A woman isn't meant to be alone. 502 00:44:18,009 --> 00:44:22,095 She needs a roof over her head. A roof and a man. 503 00:44:23,473 --> 00:44:24,964 I have to get back to class. 504 00:44:25,142 --> 00:44:27,929 You can't avoid getting a man. You're not ugly enough. 505 00:44:37,946 --> 00:44:39,403 Inside with you. 506 00:44:42,868 --> 00:44:46,157 No, the ball doesn't belong in the classroom. Come on, Roger. 507 00:44:50,917 --> 00:44:55,959 The French bread is good. 508 00:44:59,426 --> 00:45:03,090 Their policy of cheap bread is meant to appease the factory workers. 509 00:45:03,263 --> 00:45:06,222 Soon we'll be selling our wheat at a loss. 510 00:45:06,392 --> 00:45:09,726 It's at 18 francs per hectoliter. At 16, we'll go bankrupt. 511 00:45:09,895 --> 00:45:11,602 It's the Americans' fault. 512 00:45:11,772 --> 00:45:15,062 They produce too much. We should impose tariffs on them. 513 00:45:15,235 --> 00:45:17,146 You should go into politics. 514 00:45:17,569 --> 00:45:19,687 Write a letter to the deputy. 515 00:45:19,864 --> 00:45:23,698 He has to do something to get reelected. - Soon you'll be writing them yourself. 516 00:45:25,744 --> 00:45:28,738 And maybe one day, I'll be the deputy. 517 00:45:29,665 --> 00:45:30,872 Why not? 518 00:45:31,041 --> 00:45:33,375 I own most of the land in the area. 519 00:45:33,544 --> 00:45:35,628 That's what school is for, Joseph. 520 00:45:35,797 --> 00:45:37,379 To awaken ambition. 521 00:45:38,258 --> 00:45:40,340 You've certainly awakened my ambition. 522 00:45:43,555 --> 00:45:47,469 Next year, I'm buying a mechanical harvester for the crops. 523 00:45:48,143 --> 00:45:51,307 Then I'll even be able to read how it works. 524 00:45:53,523 --> 00:45:54,980 You were right. 525 00:45:55,608 --> 00:45:59,522 With progress, there will be no more peasants, only agriculturalists. 526 00:45:59,696 --> 00:46:02,735 And an agriculturalist must know how to read. 527 00:46:03,450 --> 00:46:06,238 As a deputy, one can't afford to make mistakes. 528 00:46:12,126 --> 00:46:14,287 The two of us could achieve a lot. 529 00:46:23,721 --> 00:46:25,553 Do you want to sleep in a real bed? 530 00:46:28,184 --> 00:46:29,641 In one like yours? 531 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,016 There are worse ones. 532 00:46:36,610 --> 00:46:38,566 I have great respect for you. 533 00:46:38,736 --> 00:46:40,602 If you'll have me, I'll marry you. 534 00:46:44,785 --> 00:46:46,525 The world would be your oyster. 535 00:46:46,703 --> 00:46:49,410 You could continue teaching, if you wanted. 536 00:46:49,581 --> 00:46:52,914 Buy things for your students, not just chalk. 537 00:46:57,130 --> 00:46:59,247 I can wait. I'm in no hurry. 538 00:47:00,300 --> 00:47:03,668 But if you think about it, you'll see that it makes sense. 539 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,593 I've called an extraordinary town council meeting. 540 00:47:11,770 --> 00:47:14,262 As the mayor's secretary, you must be there. 541 00:47:33,458 --> 00:47:35,415 Do you have the bottle? - Good. 542 00:47:35,585 --> 00:47:38,954 There it is. Have a drink. - No, later. 543 00:47:40,675 --> 00:47:42,415 Not too much red. 544 00:47:43,177 --> 00:47:44,668 Not too much white. 545 00:47:47,931 --> 00:47:50,015 That's the Republic. - Beautiful. 546 00:47:50,183 --> 00:47:52,642 I like that word, 'Republic'. - Yes. 547 00:47:52,812 --> 00:47:56,305 It's a word that makes a little sound in your mouth. 548 00:47:56,858 --> 00:47:58,645 A tickling sound. 549 00:47:59,277 --> 00:48:01,985 That sound makes you thirsty. Right, Joseph? 550 00:48:02,780 --> 00:48:05,022 Because today is no ordinary day. 551 00:48:06,075 --> 00:48:07,941 Today is a momentous day. 552 00:48:08,119 --> 00:48:10,077 Today is a day for celebration. 553 00:48:11,581 --> 00:48:13,288 We're celebrating something? - Yes. 554 00:48:16,043 --> 00:48:18,410 Go on, give it to her. - Aren't we waiting for Rémi? 555 00:48:18,547 --> 00:48:21,004 He said he wasn't coming. - Oh, right. 556 00:48:21,757 --> 00:48:27,128 Would the mayor's secretary please read the council's decision aloud? 557 00:48:39,234 --> 00:48:41,897 'Having confirmed the requirement that the state funds 558 00:48:42,070 --> 00:48:46,656 for the construction of a public building be invested within the current year,' 559 00:48:48,243 --> 00:48:49,734 'the town council has decided,' 560 00:48:49,912 --> 00:48:52,701 'to prioritize the future of the village and its children,' 561 00:48:52,999 --> 00:48:56,537 'and has unanimously resolved that said budget be used for the construction...' 562 00:48:59,087 --> 00:49:00,875 '...of a schoolhouse.' 563 00:49:01,049 --> 00:49:03,792 And it will be the most beautiful in the whole department. 564 00:49:04,509 --> 00:49:08,378 And the town hall? - Well, that's at the mayor's house. 565 00:49:09,431 --> 00:49:13,550 And since we have no money for laborers, we'll build our school ourselves. 566 00:49:14,228 --> 00:49:18,564 But be warned, we want to see diplomas and even high school graduates. 567 00:49:20,235 --> 00:49:21,692 Well then... Hey. 568 00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,186 To the schoolhouse. 569 00:49:24,364 --> 00:49:26,731 To the schoolhouse! 570 00:49:42,882 --> 00:49:44,840 A new world is taking shape before my eyes. 571 00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:49,883 In Paris, no one expected me to last even three months. 572 00:49:50,891 --> 00:49:52,176 I'm still here, 573 00:49:52,350 --> 00:49:55,310 and the school seems to have become everyone's priority. 574 00:49:58,773 --> 00:50:01,983 They unanimously chose the school over the town hall. 575 00:50:02,277 --> 00:50:04,315 That's what surprises me the most. 576 00:50:05,364 --> 00:50:09,199 This newfound enthusiasm can hardly be attributed to my work. 577 00:50:10,577 --> 00:50:13,115 Perhaps the call for education is louder than I thought. 578 00:50:15,582 --> 00:50:20,247 I was wrong about these people. I saw only selfishness and property here. 579 00:50:21,463 --> 00:50:24,206 But it is also a world of solidarity. 580 00:50:27,261 --> 00:50:30,720 Our esteemed Proudhon is proven right here every day. 581 00:50:30,890 --> 00:50:33,723 The work of ten men in one hour is always more productive 582 00:50:34,019 --> 00:50:36,682 than the work of one man in ten hours. 583 00:50:39,190 --> 00:50:40,976 It's a wonderful thing to see. 584 00:50:42,901 --> 00:50:45,189 The school is our community project. 585 00:50:47,448 --> 00:50:49,862 The intelligence of the hands is everywhere. 586 00:50:51,411 --> 00:50:55,405 Gestures performed a thousand times unite in a common effort. 587 00:51:00,170 --> 00:51:02,833 The enthusiasm is real. And it's a beautiful thing to see. 588 00:51:03,006 --> 00:51:04,464 Do you want some water? 589 00:51:05,133 --> 00:51:07,500 In the future, I must capture this in a photograph: 590 00:51:08,470 --> 00:51:11,088 the beauty of brotherhood. 591 00:51:11,265 --> 00:51:14,803 I am experiencing an extraordinary moment of sharing and harmony. 592 00:51:15,101 --> 00:51:18,720 Through our shared will alone, we are creating a better world. 593 00:51:35,331 --> 00:51:39,325 With a telegraph, your message arrives the moment you send it. 594 00:51:39,502 --> 00:51:41,789 Listen to me. Listen... 595 00:51:41,962 --> 00:51:44,750 Because it makes a little sound. 596 00:51:46,759 --> 00:51:50,173 Don't believe everything in the papers. - It wasn't in the papers. 597 00:51:50,471 --> 00:51:52,804 Fernand told me. From his schoolbook. 598 00:51:52,973 --> 00:51:54,430 Lucien! 599 00:51:57,687 --> 00:52:00,099 Tell Désiré to stop sneaking around Jeanne. 600 00:52:00,272 --> 00:52:03,265 Or he'll get a taste of my shotgun. - Hey, calm down. 601 00:52:04,193 --> 00:52:07,062 That's how it is at their age. Have a drink. It's your vintage. 602 00:52:13,119 --> 00:52:14,782 Jeanne should save herself. 603 00:52:16,248 --> 00:52:18,739 I warned your son. He'll stay away from her! 604 00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,327 Have you said what you wanted to say? 605 00:52:22,962 --> 00:52:25,671 Then stop shouting. - Folks, it's Sunday. 606 00:52:25,841 --> 00:52:27,673 No fighting and no letters. 607 00:52:27,968 --> 00:52:31,962 Today is the Lord's day, the day of bliss and the postman. 608 00:52:33,974 --> 00:52:37,638 And what about the roof? Tiles or thatch? 609 00:52:39,271 --> 00:52:41,855 She'll like that, huh? - She certainly will. 610 00:52:42,023 --> 00:52:45,187 She says we're good people. - She's talking about us? 611 00:52:47,237 --> 00:52:48,729 You read her letters. Say it. 612 00:52:48,906 --> 00:52:51,899 Just because I read them, doesn't mean I have to tell everything. 613 00:52:52,076 --> 00:52:53,611 The mail is sacred. 614 00:52:56,956 --> 00:52:58,412 Who is she writing to? 615 00:53:28,446 --> 00:53:29,779 You're too stupid for school. 616 00:53:30,449 --> 00:53:32,406 Like your father, a good-for-nothing. 617 00:53:32,576 --> 00:53:34,316 Firmin! 618 00:53:34,495 --> 00:53:35,952 Firmin, Fernand! 619 00:53:36,246 --> 00:53:37,907 Stop it right now! 620 00:53:38,789 --> 00:53:39,871 Firmin, Fernand. 621 00:53:40,167 --> 00:53:42,375 Leave it, I'll finish this alone. 622 00:53:43,045 --> 00:53:44,957 Go on ahead, I'll catch up. 623 00:53:47,632 --> 00:53:49,716 Come on, come. Come. 624 00:53:57,518 --> 00:53:58,975 Wait, no. 625 00:54:02,689 --> 00:54:04,727 No. - Quick. 626 00:54:10,781 --> 00:54:13,990 Are you coming to class? - I want to travel. 627 00:54:15,620 --> 00:54:18,236 One doesn't exclude the other. On the contrary. 628 00:54:18,413 --> 00:54:20,326 Do you like trains? - Someday I'll take the train. 629 00:54:20,500 --> 00:54:22,832 I'll travel through France. I'll go on my journeyman years. 630 00:54:23,460 --> 00:54:25,327 Do you know what this is called? 631 00:54:26,464 --> 00:54:28,251 'Two Children on a Journey Through France'. 632 00:54:28,424 --> 00:54:30,586 If you could read... - I'll travel alone. 633 00:54:32,762 --> 00:54:35,504 What do you have there? - A cricket cage. 634 00:54:35,682 --> 00:54:37,844 Did you make it? - Yes. 635 00:54:38,601 --> 00:54:40,308 Is it for me? - No. 636 00:54:42,105 --> 00:54:43,562 You're really talented. 637 00:54:46,859 --> 00:54:51,025 Here, take it if you want. It has drawings and photographs inside. 638 00:54:51,198 --> 00:54:53,814 I'll lend it to you. Tell me what you think of it. 639 00:54:53,992 --> 00:54:57,235 I'll save you a seat next to Flore in the new school. 640 00:54:59,623 --> 00:55:01,784 You could at least try it. 641 00:55:02,876 --> 00:55:05,619 Not all paths have to go through education. 642 00:55:06,297 --> 00:55:08,208 Maybe that's not the path for him. 643 00:55:08,506 --> 00:55:10,169 Come on, go home. 644 00:55:17,683 --> 00:55:19,390 Why are you telling him that? 645 00:55:21,145 --> 00:55:24,559 He has to go to school. Learn to read, to write. 646 00:55:24,857 --> 00:55:28,066 To think! - As if he didn't do that before. 647 00:55:36,660 --> 00:55:38,368 Why are you even here? 648 00:55:41,416 --> 00:55:43,828 We've already loaded everything onto the cart. 649 00:55:48,505 --> 00:55:50,543 Weren't we supposed to meet there? 650 00:55:52,260 --> 00:55:54,798 Because you're so sure that you're right, 651 00:55:54,971 --> 00:55:57,304 you forget that there are other ways. 652 00:55:58,683 --> 00:56:00,423 You don't have to teach us how to think. 653 00:56:00,602 --> 00:56:04,186 We have our life, our culture. They're ours! 654 00:56:04,356 --> 00:56:06,939 If you want to change that, that's your business. 655 00:56:07,108 --> 00:56:09,225 Just don't act as if you don't know that. 656 00:56:09,402 --> 00:56:11,610 Because you know it very well. - What's wrong with you? 657 00:56:11,780 --> 00:56:14,819 If they can read and write, the children leave the fields, 658 00:56:14,991 --> 00:56:16,698 and become civil servants. 659 00:56:16,994 --> 00:56:19,235 In starched shirts and with sleeve protectors. 660 00:56:19,412 --> 00:56:21,621 Good citizens who keep the machine running. 661 00:56:21,791 --> 00:56:24,874 And one day they'll die in battle to save your Republic. 662 00:56:25,044 --> 00:56:27,706 Maybe you call that 'thinking', but I don't. 663 00:56:33,677 --> 00:56:36,136 I gave you a roof and a school. 664 00:56:38,265 --> 00:56:39,675 Yes or no? 665 00:56:42,812 --> 00:56:43,802 Yes. 666 00:56:46,399 --> 00:56:49,107 Is it true that you're for communal property? 667 00:56:50,570 --> 00:56:52,902 Who told you that? - Thermidor. 668 00:56:53,322 --> 00:56:57,282 He says you were in the Commune and still write to those guys. 669 00:56:57,451 --> 00:56:59,068 That you were even in prison. 670 00:57:01,247 --> 00:57:02,783 Does he read my mail? 671 00:57:07,337 --> 00:57:09,328 The postman isn't the problem. 672 00:57:10,256 --> 00:57:11,714 You are. 673 00:57:14,386 --> 00:57:16,627 The land here will not be divided. 674 00:57:17,139 --> 00:57:18,880 It belongs to the farmers. 675 00:57:19,057 --> 00:57:22,345 Don't put such ideas into the children's heads. 676 00:57:23,144 --> 00:57:25,728 My teaching and my convictions are two different things. 677 00:57:25,896 --> 00:57:27,354 Those are just words. 678 00:57:28,150 --> 00:57:29,891 They mean nothing at all. 679 00:57:33,488 --> 00:57:36,231 I'll keep my word. You have your school. 680 00:57:36,408 --> 00:57:39,742 But one wrong word to the children, and you're out of here. 681 00:57:40,036 --> 00:57:41,493 Do you understand? 682 00:57:43,832 --> 00:57:47,496 For now, the school stays as is. We'll deal with the roof later. 683 00:59:38,116 --> 00:59:40,483 She was chatting with him at the well. 684 00:59:40,784 --> 00:59:43,277 She wants to share everything: potatoes and men. 685 00:59:43,454 --> 00:59:45,571 I told you something was fishy. 686 00:59:45,748 --> 00:59:47,740 Public education must be great. 687 00:59:47,917 --> 00:59:50,876 Acting sweet, but spreading your legs for everyone. 688 00:59:51,045 --> 00:59:53,208 We shouldn't have given her our children. 689 00:59:53,507 --> 00:59:55,748 You might still be able to get them out. 690 00:59:59,262 --> 01:00:01,255 So your Jeanne ran off? 691 01:00:01,432 --> 01:00:04,300 Don't worry. Désiré will take care of her. 692 01:00:04,476 --> 01:00:07,559 Good that they're together. - Maybe it's for the best. 693 01:00:07,687 --> 01:00:11,272 Some things here you don't want to see. - Definitely not. 694 01:00:11,983 --> 01:00:13,475 Beware of strangers. 695 01:00:13,652 --> 01:00:17,235 If they're here, it means they were unwanted where they came from. 696 01:00:17,406 --> 01:00:20,365 You have to know when it's time to leave. 697 01:00:20,533 --> 01:00:22,696 Especially when you've cheated good people. 698 01:00:22,870 --> 01:00:25,031 Some stains don't come out with scrubbing. 699 01:00:25,205 --> 01:00:27,367 The stains are on your eyes. 700 01:00:28,292 --> 01:00:29,749 Do you hear that? 701 01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,042 I've seen women like you everywhere. 702 01:00:35,925 --> 01:00:37,712 You defile everything you look at. 703 01:00:37,885 --> 01:00:40,343 A slut wants to teach lessons? 704 01:00:43,307 --> 01:00:45,390 I'll break you of that habit, my little one. 705 01:00:57,237 --> 01:00:59,321 Go, Honorine! - Go, Honorine! 706 01:00:59,950 --> 01:01:02,488 Go! - Go! Go, Honorine! 707 01:01:14,756 --> 01:01:18,545 He goes to school. He learns to read and write and becomes a biologist. 708 01:01:19,260 --> 01:01:22,550 For years, he works every evening by candlelight. 709 01:01:22,723 --> 01:01:26,341 And one day he invents a vaccine that will save lives. 710 01:01:31,356 --> 01:01:33,644 Maybe you'll be the next Louis Pasteur, Victor. 711 01:01:33,943 --> 01:01:35,400 Anything is possible. 712 01:01:36,277 --> 01:01:38,234 Maybe Fernand will be an explorer. 713 01:01:38,780 --> 01:01:41,148 Roland, a train conductor. 714 01:01:41,325 --> 01:01:43,362 Mathilde, a journalist. 715 01:01:43,536 --> 01:01:45,276 Firmin, a lawyer. 716 01:01:45,453 --> 01:01:47,366 Lucette, an actress. 717 01:01:47,540 --> 01:01:51,409 Roger, a vet or even a minister. - I want to be a farmer. 718 01:01:51,585 --> 01:01:53,325 You'll do what you want. 719 01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:56,712 The main thing is to have a choice. 720 01:01:56,882 --> 01:01:58,669 That's why you're here. 721 01:01:58,843 --> 01:02:01,301 To seize such a life, your life. 722 01:02:02,054 --> 01:02:04,341 I look at you and see the great men of tomorrow. 723 01:02:04,515 --> 01:02:06,632 The women will change things too. 724 01:02:07,393 --> 01:02:10,306 There will be women and men who write poems, 725 01:02:10,479 --> 01:02:13,062 invent medicines, discover planets, 726 01:02:13,692 --> 01:02:15,148 save lives! 727 01:02:16,402 --> 01:02:18,985 Louis Pasteur was a farmer's son, just like all of you. 728 01:02:19,573 --> 01:02:22,155 As a man of the people, he gave back to the people. 729 01:02:22,324 --> 01:02:24,657 He should be an example to us all. 730 01:02:30,124 --> 01:02:33,539 Does anyone know which disease his vaccine cured? 731 01:02:33,837 --> 01:02:35,623 Rabies. - Bravo, Victor. 732 01:02:36,631 --> 01:02:38,088 Rabies. 733 01:02:43,513 --> 01:02:45,300 Goodbye, Madame. - Goodbye. 734 01:02:45,474 --> 01:02:48,967 Goodbye, Madame. 735 01:02:57,070 --> 01:02:59,152 Madame? 736 01:02:59,321 --> 01:03:01,439 Is it true that you were in prison? 737 01:03:02,824 --> 01:03:04,066 Yes. 738 01:03:04,951 --> 01:03:08,241 We have to go home. Let's go. 739 01:03:27,683 --> 01:03:30,926 Look, I found a cicada. - Leave me alone. 740 01:03:31,104 --> 01:03:33,392 Look how it tickles. - Stop it. 741 01:03:50,457 --> 01:03:51,914 Good day. 742 01:03:53,167 --> 01:03:54,624 Good day, Father. 743 01:03:59,550 --> 01:04:01,291 How is my altar boy? 744 01:04:03,469 --> 01:04:06,508 Now that we're neighbors, I hope to see you more often. 745 01:04:08,766 --> 01:04:10,429 At least you have some air. 746 01:04:15,399 --> 01:04:17,140 A podium? 747 01:04:17,317 --> 01:04:19,604 Words from on high fall on more receptive ears. 748 01:04:19,778 --> 01:04:22,316 The teacher's podium is the priest's pulpit. 749 01:04:28,203 --> 01:04:29,489 No cross? 750 01:04:29,664 --> 01:04:32,747 Not until a map of France hangs in your church. 751 01:04:34,836 --> 01:04:37,248 Some priests refuse the sacraments to families, 752 01:04:37,421 --> 01:04:40,381 who send their children to the Republic's school. 753 01:04:42,802 --> 01:04:46,170 I don't want to be one of them. - What brings you here? 754 01:04:47,807 --> 01:04:49,388 I'm worried. 755 01:04:51,352 --> 01:04:55,096 Your youthful sins have become the talk of the town. 756 01:04:55,982 --> 01:04:59,191 I regret nothing. And my past is my business alone. 757 01:05:01,446 --> 01:05:03,312 The sinner will sin again. 758 01:05:04,449 --> 01:05:07,284 You can do nothing about the rumors. 759 01:05:08,037 --> 01:05:11,405 Whoever looks after our children must be a role model. 760 01:05:11,998 --> 01:05:13,831 My experience has taught me: 761 01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,584 Morality is also taught by example. 762 01:05:17,337 --> 01:05:19,204 Not everyone who lives in a stable is Jesus. 763 01:05:19,506 --> 01:05:21,462 You're in my classroom, Father. 764 01:05:21,634 --> 01:05:25,298 I'm the one who teaches the lessons here. Spare me your sermons. 765 01:05:26,096 --> 01:05:28,838 I was in prison for ten years. My debt is paid. 766 01:05:29,015 --> 01:05:31,679 I owe nothing more to anyone and I am free. 767 01:05:32,144 --> 01:05:34,886 As a woman, you might be able to claim that. 768 01:05:35,064 --> 01:05:37,351 But as a teacher, certainly not. 769 01:05:37,900 --> 01:05:40,392 And contrary to your apparent belief, 770 01:05:41,028 --> 01:05:43,645 one always teaches what one believes. 771 01:05:45,533 --> 01:05:49,776 Was the mayor at confession? - It remains to be seen what you believe. 772 01:05:52,207 --> 01:05:54,539 The Paris Commune was quite bloody. 773 01:05:56,585 --> 01:06:00,250 We just wanted to defend our homes and give bread to the hungry. 774 01:06:05,636 --> 01:06:08,220 What do you want? A confession? 775 01:06:09,765 --> 01:06:11,223 The truth. 776 01:06:12,644 --> 01:06:14,760 No one goes to prison for no reason. 777 01:06:16,648 --> 01:06:19,106 I saw women slit open on gun carriages. 778 01:06:21,444 --> 01:06:23,731 Girls, raped by officers of the law. 779 01:06:26,741 --> 01:06:30,031 Men who were massacred just for wanting to keep hope alive. 780 01:06:31,496 --> 01:06:33,580 Yes, I was tempted to use violence. 781 01:06:36,084 --> 01:06:38,077 I found this world unjust. 782 01:06:41,924 --> 01:06:44,336 In prison, the village children saved my life. 783 01:06:44,509 --> 01:06:46,091 I wanted to die. 784 01:06:46,261 --> 01:06:49,505 But they waited for me every morning so I could read them stories. 785 01:06:50,391 --> 01:06:55,135 There was so much curiosity in their eyes, so much thirst for knowledge. 786 01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:59,681 My students keep me alive. 787 01:07:10,494 --> 01:07:13,532 You should calm things down and show some goodwill. 788 01:07:14,832 --> 01:07:17,701 Should I go to mass? - To mass? No. 789 01:07:18,711 --> 01:07:20,168 To church? Yes. 790 01:07:21,173 --> 01:07:23,334 You can't stop people from talking. 791 01:07:23,507 --> 01:07:25,750 Staying alone is not the answer. 792 01:07:27,803 --> 01:07:29,796 Joseph only wants what's best for you. 793 01:07:36,563 --> 01:07:37,724 Marthe! 794 01:07:39,149 --> 01:07:40,605 Marthe! 795 01:07:41,818 --> 01:07:44,310 She collapsed in her garden! 796 01:08:14,810 --> 01:08:17,803 Gabriel, any news? - Yes, she gave birth this morning. 797 01:08:17,979 --> 01:08:19,642 Ah, that's good. 798 01:08:23,276 --> 01:08:26,987 We're holding a wake, but life has found a way once again. 799 01:08:27,156 --> 01:08:28,818 Yes, and not just any way. 800 01:08:28,991 --> 01:08:31,323 It's the most beautiful baby in the world. 801 01:08:33,079 --> 01:08:34,945 Thank you, Flore, that's kind. 802 01:08:36,874 --> 01:08:38,331 Here. - That's good. 803 01:08:46,175 --> 01:08:49,213 The old woman couldn't stand that bloodthirsty woman. 804 01:08:49,972 --> 01:08:53,135 It ate away at her heart. - She has to go. 805 01:08:53,642 --> 01:08:57,055 That way I can tell her what's new. And hear if everything is alright. 806 01:08:57,771 --> 01:09:00,764 You'll do it your way. I know it will be fine. 807 01:09:00,941 --> 01:09:02,807 Don't you worry, Léonie. 808 01:09:02,985 --> 01:09:05,476 Your Jeanne will love these letters. 809 01:09:05,653 --> 01:09:08,488 Our teacher is a very good writer. 810 01:09:10,324 --> 01:09:11,611 What? 811 01:09:11,785 --> 01:09:14,197 Please stop reading my letters. 812 01:09:16,331 --> 01:09:19,199 I'm saying goodbye to Marthe. - I'll come with you. 813 01:12:26,233 --> 01:12:28,941 Get up. - I'm not doing anything wrong. 814 01:12:30,030 --> 01:12:32,737 Do as I say. Put that knife away. 815 01:12:33,532 --> 01:12:34,989 He likes wood. 816 01:12:35,743 --> 01:12:38,657 He should like the earth. It's what feeds him. 817 01:12:40,665 --> 01:12:42,532 I told you to get lost! 818 01:12:45,086 --> 01:12:49,047 Look at you two. You and the teacher, stealing other people's children. 819 01:12:49,341 --> 01:12:51,378 Be quiet. This is not the time or place. 820 01:12:51,677 --> 01:12:54,636 Rémi, please, not now, not here. - Stay out of this, Father. 821 01:12:54,805 --> 01:12:57,798 It's her fault Jeanne is gone. She put those ideas in her head. 822 01:12:57,974 --> 01:12:59,930 Calm down, Rémi. Your daughter will be back. 823 01:13:00,102 --> 01:13:01,638 Luckily, she has Désiré. 824 01:13:01,812 --> 01:13:04,270 To whore around in Paris? - To be a housemaid. 825 01:13:04,564 --> 01:13:06,306 What's the difference? 826 01:13:06,483 --> 01:13:09,521 She'll sell herself. She's no longer my daughter. 827 01:13:10,612 --> 01:13:14,277 And Jules isn't going to your school. So you don't need to give him any books. 828 01:13:15,867 --> 01:13:18,610 Do you hear me? You have no business here. 829 01:13:19,329 --> 01:13:21,491 You're with us now, not at home. 830 01:13:24,459 --> 01:13:26,622 We can't give her our children. 831 01:13:27,629 --> 01:13:30,338 Someone should burn down her damn school! 832 01:13:32,008 --> 01:13:33,921 Here. - No. 833 01:13:34,220 --> 01:13:35,677 Stop it. 834 01:13:40,685 --> 01:13:43,769 He means no harm. He's just had a drink, because of Jeanne. 835 01:13:45,606 --> 01:13:48,474 You think you're the master of the house, with a woman under your roof, 836 01:13:48,777 --> 01:13:50,768 who wants nothing to do with you? 837 01:13:51,612 --> 01:13:53,069 You poor fool. 838 01:13:57,577 --> 01:13:59,695 Did you tell the teacher 839 01:13:59,872 --> 01:14:02,864 that you paid off everyone's debts so we'd vote for your school? 840 01:14:03,167 --> 01:14:05,158 That's enough, Rémi. Go home. 841 01:14:07,671 --> 01:14:10,253 Come on. - She still won't sleep with you. 842 01:14:11,216 --> 01:14:14,379 The honorable Mr. Mayor. - Hey, calm down, Rémi. 843 01:14:14,552 --> 01:14:16,135 This won't solve anything. 844 01:14:16,429 --> 01:14:19,423 It's the grief talking. You're not yourself. 845 01:14:20,975 --> 01:14:22,433 Come on. 846 01:14:28,484 --> 01:14:31,227 Go back to your valley. You're just looking for a fight. 847 01:15:51,235 --> 01:15:52,976 Time for dinner. 848 01:16:14,509 --> 01:16:17,125 My daughter and I are going to need someone in the house. 849 01:16:17,678 --> 01:16:21,547 I still want you, despite everything. But you have to make a choice. 850 01:17:58,156 --> 01:17:59,943 You wanted to know the truth. 851 01:18:04,329 --> 01:18:06,446 The truth is, I've been dead for a long time. 852 01:18:09,001 --> 01:18:11,368 My life ended when they took everything from me. 853 01:18:17,926 --> 01:18:20,293 My husband and I were on the barricades. 854 01:18:22,807 --> 01:18:26,426 He took photographs to save those men and women from being forgotten. 855 01:18:28,980 --> 01:18:30,641 There was so much courage, 856 01:18:31,774 --> 01:18:33,231 joy, 857 01:18:34,067 --> 01:18:35,525 passion. 858 01:18:39,032 --> 01:18:42,400 We had to immortalize the beauty of the people of Paris. 859 01:18:48,207 --> 01:18:50,039 Then they hunted him down. 860 01:18:54,547 --> 01:18:56,789 They set my apartment on fire. 861 01:18:57,467 --> 01:18:59,630 My husband and my children were inside. 862 01:19:04,599 --> 01:19:08,639 I can still hear my children's screams and the soldiers' laughter. 863 01:19:13,525 --> 01:19:15,732 I wanted to kill them all. 864 01:19:19,781 --> 01:19:21,444 But there were too many of them. 865 01:19:28,665 --> 01:19:31,248 Over time, hate and tears wear you down. 866 01:19:33,629 --> 01:19:35,336 They rob you of everything. 867 01:19:35,964 --> 01:19:37,830 Even your memories. 868 01:19:40,886 --> 01:19:42,923 The memory of the other's body, 869 01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:46,472 of his hands on your skin. 870 01:19:52,774 --> 01:19:55,481 Even the faces of my own children are fading. 871 01:20:02,575 --> 01:20:04,281 I have nothing left. 872 01:20:06,663 --> 01:20:08,120 Nothing. 873 01:20:24,973 --> 01:20:26,430 I'm sorry. 874 01:20:35,526 --> 01:20:36,811 Hail. 875 01:20:41,906 --> 01:20:43,694 Who does God confide in? 876 01:20:49,165 --> 01:20:51,702 I've been hearing confessions for over 30 years. 877 01:20:54,627 --> 01:20:57,371 I've heard enough horrors to give rise to doubt. 878 01:20:58,674 --> 01:21:00,290 Often in humanity, 879 01:21:01,594 --> 01:21:03,506 but sometimes, even in God. 880 01:21:08,767 --> 01:21:10,929 I often reach my limits. 881 01:21:11,979 --> 01:21:15,188 I no longer know what to think. Or what to believe. 882 01:21:22,281 --> 01:21:26,743 Can you teach in your church until a new teacher is sent? 883 01:22:01,071 --> 01:22:04,485 He was shouting over the hail that his entire fruit harvest was lost. 884 01:22:05,243 --> 01:22:08,451 That all he had left was his son, and you can't take him away. 885 01:22:08,620 --> 01:22:11,159 Alright, he may have been drunk, but... 886 01:22:12,708 --> 01:22:14,949 Those are the words of an unhappy man. 887 01:22:16,087 --> 01:22:18,749 I'm burying my mother, but he's the unhappy one. 888 01:22:18,922 --> 01:22:20,835 Rémi isn't a bad fellow. 889 01:22:21,008 --> 01:22:24,421 But a man with nothing left has nothing left to lose. 890 01:22:24,594 --> 01:22:29,056 'Charente', 'Charente-Maritime'. 891 01:22:29,850 --> 01:22:31,637 'Cher', 'Constantine'. 892 01:22:31,811 --> 01:22:33,427 I need to talk to you. 893 01:22:33,604 --> 01:22:36,187 'Corrèze', 'Calais'. - What are you doing? 894 01:22:37,775 --> 01:22:39,893 I'm reviewing the 'départements'. 895 01:22:40,486 --> 01:22:42,318 You'd be better off making us dinner. 896 01:22:43,197 --> 01:22:45,315 I still have division to do. 897 01:22:50,371 --> 01:22:53,035 First and foremost, you'll do what I tell you! 898 01:23:01,716 --> 01:23:04,130 Get a bucket for the milk. 899 01:23:09,182 --> 01:23:12,220 Alright, maybe I'll go then. - You do that. 900 01:23:14,896 --> 01:23:17,730 Tell them that Joseph is still the boss at home. 901 01:23:25,157 --> 01:23:28,275 Do you think you can buy me? - I'm not buying anything or anyone. 902 01:23:28,452 --> 01:23:31,490 I made you an offer, a good one. 903 01:23:31,664 --> 01:23:33,950 It's up to you to decide whether to accept it. 904 01:23:37,337 --> 01:23:38,828 You're leaving us? 905 01:23:39,796 --> 01:23:41,333 My letter of resignation. 906 01:23:46,679 --> 01:23:49,046 If I'm no longer trusted in 'Brezons', 907 01:23:49,223 --> 01:23:51,135 I have no reason to be here anymore. 908 01:23:52,101 --> 01:23:55,639 There are other children, other villages. I'll go where people want to learn. 909 01:23:59,025 --> 01:24:02,143 I want you to stay. - It was all wrong from the start. 910 01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:05,279 You didn't want a school. You bought their votes. 911 01:24:05,907 --> 01:24:08,024 You lied to us. - Never. 912 01:24:09,702 --> 01:24:12,695 I just didn't tell you anything about my life. 913 01:24:14,749 --> 01:24:17,208 Why do you still write to those people? 914 01:24:19,380 --> 01:24:20,995 Because they're in prison. 915 01:24:24,342 --> 01:24:26,926 My friends took up arms again. 916 01:24:27,095 --> 01:24:28,586 They were locked up again. 917 01:24:28,763 --> 01:24:31,177 I chose a different path, but I haven't forgotten them. 918 01:24:33,644 --> 01:24:35,727 I also believe that the land should belong to everyone 919 01:24:36,021 --> 01:24:38,387 and that everyone should eat until they are full. 920 01:24:40,359 --> 01:24:42,601 I chose the blackboard instead of bombs. 921 01:24:43,362 --> 01:24:45,729 I would never force my ideas on the children. 922 01:24:50,119 --> 01:24:52,953 But my body belongs to me alone. 923 01:25:25,572 --> 01:25:27,029 What's going on? 924 01:25:38,127 --> 01:25:39,662 Water the trees! 925 01:25:41,630 --> 01:25:43,211 Water the trees! 926 01:25:46,092 --> 01:25:48,630 It's too late for the school! The trees! - Quick! 927 01:27:26,696 --> 01:27:28,903 Want some wine? - No, thanks. Later. 928 01:27:36,372 --> 01:27:38,204 The scythe is a bad habit. 929 01:27:38,373 --> 01:27:40,582 It leaves nothing for the gleaners. 930 01:27:40,751 --> 01:27:42,993 The sickle gives something back to the poor. 931 01:27:43,796 --> 01:27:47,506 Look. They say she quit and is leaving. 932 01:27:51,722 --> 01:27:54,384 The police will probably get to 'Rémi' today. 933 01:27:54,682 --> 01:27:56,515 He certainly doesn't want to run into her. 934 01:27:57,101 --> 01:28:00,095 The fact she rejected 'Joseph', with all his money... 935 01:28:00,771 --> 01:28:03,389 Say what you will, but she's got guts. 936 01:28:09,656 --> 01:28:12,194 Where is she going? That's not the way to Paris. 937 01:28:39,812 --> 01:28:41,302 'Jules'? 938 01:28:43,231 --> 01:28:44,564 'Jules'? 939 01:28:52,283 --> 01:28:53,740 Is anyone here? 940 01:29:36,537 --> 01:29:37,993 What are you doing here? 941 01:29:39,372 --> 01:29:41,489 Haven't you done enough damage? 942 01:29:41,666 --> 01:29:43,499 I want to talk to your son. 943 01:29:45,044 --> 01:29:46,502 He's not here. 944 01:29:48,257 --> 01:29:49,963 Now get out. 945 01:29:50,926 --> 01:29:52,713 Get out, I said! 946 01:29:53,554 --> 01:29:55,011 'Rémi'? 947 01:30:00,186 --> 01:30:01,596 What are you doing? 948 01:30:02,563 --> 01:30:04,520 If you come any closer, I'll kill her. 949 01:30:07,526 --> 01:30:08,984 Don't do it. 950 01:30:18,245 --> 01:30:20,909 'Joseph' is right. I'm quarrelsome. 951 01:30:21,082 --> 01:30:22,788 I'm useless. 952 01:30:24,711 --> 01:30:26,623 I can't even do that right. 953 01:30:29,590 --> 01:30:31,127 Think of 'Jules'. 954 01:30:32,844 --> 01:30:34,301 He needs you. 955 01:30:35,137 --> 01:30:36,800 He ran away too. 956 01:30:38,516 --> 01:30:41,635 If you see him, tell him not to become like his father. 957 01:30:46,441 --> 01:30:47,898 Don't come any closer! 958 01:30:49,652 --> 01:30:52,690 You won't shoot. You're not a murderer. 959 01:30:55,992 --> 01:30:57,029 No! 960 01:30:57,828 --> 01:30:59,363 I can't go on. 961 01:31:00,371 --> 01:31:02,112 I want it to stop. 962 01:31:04,584 --> 01:31:06,166 I have nothing left. 963 01:31:10,299 --> 01:31:11,756 Don't say that. 964 01:31:13,384 --> 01:31:15,342 I'm here. 965 01:31:24,939 --> 01:31:27,522 I didn't set your school on fire. 966 01:31:30,110 --> 01:31:31,567 I know. 967 01:32:12,112 --> 01:32:14,605 He can't go to prison. 968 01:32:14,906 --> 01:32:16,442 He didn't do anything. 969 01:32:32,257 --> 01:32:34,671 Unload the carts in the threshing barn. 970 01:32:34,844 --> 01:32:36,755 There are flails in the barn. 971 01:32:39,931 --> 01:32:41,798 Lay the swaths in the yard. 972 01:32:44,270 --> 01:32:47,308 What are you doing here? Where are you going? 973 01:32:48,858 --> 01:32:50,315 I'm leaving. 974 01:32:52,153 --> 01:32:55,396 You could have waited until the hat fits you. 975 01:32:57,075 --> 01:32:59,282 Everyone's leaving, and I'm the only one staying. 976 01:33:00,912 --> 01:33:02,996 Did you take any of my tools? 977 01:33:03,706 --> 01:33:06,915 Then what are you doing here? - Saying goodbye. 978 01:33:12,131 --> 01:33:13,589 Fine. 979 01:33:27,314 --> 01:33:29,271 Did you tell your father you were leaving? 980 01:33:29,441 --> 01:33:31,854 My father doesn't care. - I doubt that. 981 01:33:33,070 --> 01:33:35,232 I want to be like you, not like him. 982 01:33:37,324 --> 01:33:38,986 You want to be alone? 983 01:33:43,914 --> 01:33:45,998 What does it mean, to be like your father? 984 01:33:49,420 --> 01:33:51,206 Like a man who loves the earth? 985 01:33:52,173 --> 01:33:55,416 A man who fights alone against rain, snow, and hail? 986 01:33:56,385 --> 01:33:59,345 A man who makes the greatest sacrifices for his family? 987 01:34:00,305 --> 01:34:02,343 A man who feeds others? 988 01:34:02,517 --> 01:34:05,429 A brave man? You don't want to be like that? 989 01:34:10,316 --> 01:34:12,773 If you're going to leave, you need a good reason. 990 01:34:14,362 --> 01:34:16,354 There are two kinds of resistance: 991 01:34:16,990 --> 01:34:18,446 the one from without 992 01:34:19,325 --> 01:34:21,282 and the one from within. 993 01:34:22,286 --> 01:34:23,948 That's the most dangerous one. 994 01:34:28,043 --> 01:34:30,500 There's one thing you must never forget: 995 01:34:32,214 --> 01:34:35,331 You think you're working with wood, but you're working on yourself. 996 01:34:36,926 --> 01:34:39,169 You decide what kind of wood you want to be: 997 01:34:39,345 --> 01:34:40,927 straight or crooked. 998 01:34:45,436 --> 01:34:47,097 I have to tell you something. 999 01:34:53,777 --> 01:34:57,691 This proves nothing. It might have been there for a while. 1000 01:35:00,075 --> 01:35:03,318 I think he left it there to divert suspicion from you. 1001 01:35:06,457 --> 01:35:08,414 Maybe he's already far away. 1002 01:35:09,460 --> 01:35:12,919 We have to find him before he gets into any more trouble. 1003 01:35:14,256 --> 01:35:16,168 We just have to say that it was me. 1004 01:35:16,468 --> 01:35:19,380 He can't go to prison. He has his whole life ahead of him. 1005 01:35:21,597 --> 01:35:23,214 Nobody is going to prison. 1006 01:35:24,267 --> 01:35:25,848 Good day, everyone. 1007 01:35:26,977 --> 01:35:30,312 Joseph is calling a local council meeting at his house. 1008 01:35:31,232 --> 01:35:34,725 And what's that got to do with me? - It's about your son, Rémi. 1009 01:35:35,653 --> 01:35:37,769 He's there. At Joseph's place. 1010 01:35:53,046 --> 01:35:56,915 Did you get lost on the way? - No, the wine merchant was late. 1011 01:35:57,092 --> 01:36:00,586 You know how it is. You have a taste, and then another. 1012 01:36:00,763 --> 01:36:02,845 Be quiet, you reek of booze. 1013 01:36:03,973 --> 01:36:06,762 So you haven't left after all? - Not yet. 1014 01:36:17,530 --> 01:36:20,818 In the meantime, he helped Flore with the hay. 1015 01:36:21,616 --> 01:36:23,074 He's a hard worker. 1016 01:36:23,536 --> 01:36:25,277 Like father, like son. 1017 01:37:09,791 --> 01:37:11,202 And you? 1018 01:37:11,501 --> 01:37:13,709 Don't you have anything to say to the teacher? 1019 01:37:14,796 --> 01:37:16,253 I'm sorry. 1020 01:37:17,716 --> 01:37:18,957 I'm sorry! 1021 01:37:19,801 --> 01:37:21,588 You see? You just have to want to. 1022 01:37:21,761 --> 01:37:23,548 I'm sure it was an accident. 1023 01:37:29,811 --> 01:37:32,144 Where are you going? - To get some kindling. 1024 01:37:32,939 --> 01:37:34,852 There's enough here. Do your division problems. 1025 01:37:37,819 --> 01:37:39,732 And take this one with you. 1026 01:37:39,988 --> 01:37:42,902 It's time he picked up books instead of matches. 1027 01:37:43,075 --> 01:37:44,532 Are you coming? 1028 01:38:16,234 --> 01:38:18,602 Why did he set your school on fire? 1029 01:38:20,488 --> 01:38:23,448 Maybe he didn't set her school on fire, 1030 01:38:23,616 --> 01:38:25,074 but yours. 1031 01:38:26,578 --> 01:38:28,820 Arguments are contagious. 1032 01:38:29,748 --> 01:38:32,660 Children imitate their parents. 1033 01:38:32,833 --> 01:38:35,542 Maybe it's also because the others rejected him. 1034 01:38:37,089 --> 01:38:39,705 It's not always easy to be disliked. 1035 01:38:48,267 --> 01:38:51,180 He probably thought that's what his father wanted. 1036 01:38:51,812 --> 01:38:53,850 He wanted to defend him. Because he loves him. 1037 01:38:56,316 --> 01:38:58,149 I never wanted to start a fire. 1038 01:39:03,532 --> 01:39:06,867 I'm going to need a foreman. Would you be interested? 1039 01:39:14,669 --> 01:39:16,455 You can start immediately. 1040 01:39:31,394 --> 01:39:34,558 I always told him you were a good man deep down. 1041 01:39:40,571 --> 01:39:42,027 Come on, then. 1042 01:39:47,619 --> 01:39:49,075 We'll help you. 1043 01:39:51,205 --> 01:39:52,788 That just leaves you and me. 1044 01:40:00,132 --> 01:40:01,623 What will you do? 1045 01:40:04,762 --> 01:40:06,219 What do you mean? 1046 01:40:06,930 --> 01:40:08,796 Are you leaving or staying? 1047 01:40:18,525 --> 01:40:22,019 We'll build a new school. Better than the last one. 1048 01:40:27,201 --> 01:40:29,569 If I stay, it will be as a teacher. 1049 01:40:29,746 --> 01:40:31,577 And only as a teacher. 1050 01:40:34,833 --> 01:40:37,371 But I can still court you, can't I? 1051 01:41:00,485 --> 01:41:04,149 You're each getting a book that contains all the words in the French language. 1052 01:41:04,447 --> 01:41:06,234 All of them? - All of them. 1053 01:41:06,950 --> 01:41:09,533 Even 'hippopotamus'? - Even 'hippopotamus'. 1054 01:41:09,702 --> 01:41:11,534 Even 'cherry'? - Even 'cherry'. 1055 01:41:11,704 --> 01:41:14,118 Even 'bicycle'? - Yes. Even 'bicycle'. 1056 01:41:14,291 --> 01:41:16,077 Even 'rabies'? - Even 'rabies'. 1057 01:41:16,251 --> 01:41:18,585 Even 'poppy'? - Even 'poppy'. 1058 01:41:19,254 --> 01:41:21,246 Even 'tit'? - Roger, please. 1059 01:41:21,757 --> 01:41:23,214 Alright, hand these out. 1060 01:41:23,925 --> 01:41:26,293 It's a gift. Your first book. 1061 01:41:27,638 --> 01:41:29,094 Roger, here. 1062 01:41:30,975 --> 01:41:31,965 Here. 1063 01:41:42,111 --> 01:41:45,525 Ma'am, it's kind of you to have been so persistent about the books. 1064 01:41:45,698 --> 01:41:47,155 Who told you that? 1065 01:41:47,324 --> 01:41:49,442 My father isn't allowed to read your letters anymore. 1066 01:41:49,618 --> 01:41:51,655 So now I read them. 1067 01:41:54,081 --> 01:41:57,119 Open your books, everyone pick a word. 1068 01:41:57,293 --> 01:41:59,536 And together we'll read the definition. 1069 01:42:01,506 --> 01:42:03,463 Tree. - Shirt. 1070 01:42:03,633 --> 01:42:05,999 Lawyer. - Hut. 1071 01:42:06,178 --> 01:42:07,635 Wheelbarrow. 1072 01:42:08,180 --> 01:42:09,420 Iroquois. 1073 01:42:10,015 --> 01:42:11,426 Ladder. 1074 01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:13,762 Cow. - Dandelion. 1075 01:42:13,935 --> 01:42:15,847 Photography. - Platypus. 1076 01:43:31,473 --> 01:43:33,714 COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY 1077 01:43:53,328 --> 01:43:55,069 My father had nothing. 1078 01:43:55,956 --> 01:43:57,447 I have a book. 1079 01:43:59,167 --> 01:44:01,033 And my son will be a gentleman. 1080 01:44:02,305 --> 01:45:02,441 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm